Lionel Messi Breaks Goals Scored in Year Record

12/10/2012 8:25AM

Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has broken Gerd Müller's 40-year record of 85 league and international goals in a calendar year. WSJ's Joshua Robinson has been keeping tabs. Photo: Getty Images

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I the the ... Paul has broken four G O reckless forty eight six goals in less than one yet ... in the previous nineteen seventy two record held by judges as well ... well it also Robinson has been watching and commenting ... docile Lytle says an Argentinian that it plays a Barcelona are a ... pretty amazing athlete ... it's incredible and if it was going to be anyone to break this forty year old record iPad in this year but has been this not only ... safe Argentina but also painful Barcelona see ... right there were seventy four for parcel and twelfth Argentine in various from his World Cup qualifiers so why was he able to do this and I got ... his nickname is the fully and that is pretty short he can really move and his finishing the defense is that really how we did it ... well there's also the small matter of his un godly town and ... being surrounded by an unbelievable team in Barcelona ... how does this compare with what the get motivated ... what did Miller was playing a different era and ... if you play against some excellent in the national level but the leader of the Bundesliga or other in nineteen seventy two was not with the media is today ... he said he wasn't that we ... know you was ... when he was known as the short fat Moeller ... may be appropriately the bomb ... the ... ok what was his reputation like ... the royalties ... for the light that the public and some of it is very good but well he he was he was he had he scored maybe not as attractively is as messy but he's in he's largely underrated today he's not held up the same when the seas ... along with a chorus of Palin's markdowns ... I was a stay has well of course is that this is been one of the populace or the people player of the year award is well so I mean that twenty twelve looks like it just could be eighty of the year for ... well I mean it's it's almost certainly now going to be his fourth Island or ... I'm in as many years while ... also ... giving will James is a mean eighty six can listen ... to settle before the end of yet that's the scary part at the rate he's going he's got three more games and who knows how many that could mean ... but ... I still cautious but I ... think